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Events Archive

Conferences, workshops and distinguished speakers are among the events hosted since 1996 by the Center. Past events are listed on this page. Also see our photo gallery of selected conferences. Please note that hyperlinks are subject to change without notice.

The Great Lakes Futures Project: Policy Pathways Toward a Socio-Ecologically Sustainable Future for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin, 2013 10/03/2013-10/04/2013

Workshop on Race, Space, and Exclusion, 2013 Closed workshop, by invite only 09/19/2013-09/20/2013

Leading the Way: Moving New York State Towards a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy, 20132013 Conference Website Hosted by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy and the Drug Policy Alliance of NY; Cosponsored by CEPP, UB Department of Sociology, UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, UB Research Institute on Addictions, SUNY Buffalo Law School. 05/02/2013-05/03/2013

William Ian Miller, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan University of Michigan"Drawing Lines in the Sand: of Outlaws, Cod, Strangers, Barking Dogs, Babies, and Sanctuary" 10/30/2015, 11:45 • 509 O'Brian HallPaper: Lines in the Sand

Julia Minich, Assistant Professor of English University of Texas at AustinAztlán Unprotected: Reading Gil Cuadros in the Aftermath of a Pandemic 09/30/2014, 1:00 • 280 Park Hall

09/29/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker

Luc Foisneau, Director of Research French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)“Against Reason of State and Political Theology: Early Modern Arguments” 09/29/2014, 1:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall Cosponsored With: History Department, Philosophy Department, Center for European Studies, Humanities Institute Early Modern Research Workshop, and the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

Lauren Benton, Silver Professor; Professor of History; Affiliate Professor of LawNew York University"The Promise of Protection: The Imperial Origins of an International Law Doctrine" 04/03/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

04/02/2014 - Distinguished Speaker

Annelise Riles, Cornell University Law School Cornell University Law School"From Comparison to Collaboration: A New Paradigm for Comparative Law and the Anthropology of Law" 04/02/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian HallPaper

03/31/2014 - Cosponsored Speaker

Kidada Williams Department of History, Wayne State University'If You can, the Colored People Need Help': African Americans and the Vernacular History of Racial Violence 03/31/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian Hall

Serena Mayeri, Professor of Law and History University of Pennsylvania Law School“Stuck with the Result”: Feminist Challenges to Illegitimacy Penalties, 1972-1979 02/07/2014, 12:00 • 509 O'Brian HallStuck with the Result

Irus Braverman, SUNY Buffalo Law School“Wild Life: The Nature of In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation” Commentators: Carrie Friese, London School of Economics & Political Science; James Igoe, Anthropology, University of Virginia; Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography & the Environment, Hertford College; Michael Smith, School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University

Leading the Way: Moving New York State Towards a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy Hosted by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy and the Drug Policy Alliance of NY; Cosponsored by CEPP, UB Department of Sociology, UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, UB Research Institute on Addictions, SUNY Buffalo Law School.Conference Website 05/02/2013-05/03/2013, 5/2-evening; 5/3-all day • 5/2-Hotel Lafayette; 5/3-Ramada Hotel and Conference CenterInvitation | Sessions | Flyer

Kathleen Biddick, Temple University, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy"Undeadness of the Tree of Life: Ecological Thought of Sovereignty" Hosted by the Early Modern Reading Group and co-sponsored by the Ecocritical Studies Research Workshop

Mariana Valverde University of TorontoHow the Earth Became a Collection of Land Uses -- or Did It? Reflections on Doing Sociolegal Research in a Post-theoretical Age 03/02/2012, 12:00 pm • 509 O'Brian Hall

Lynn Mather, Professor University at Buffalo Law SchoolWith the Honorary Kevin Dillon, Erie County Supreme Court Justice - The Vanishing Trial in State and Federal Courts: A Discussion of the Trend over the Past Decades, Possible Reasons for the Decline, and Implications for the Field 04/04/2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • Downtown Buffalo Courthouse, Ceremonial Courtroom

Sol Picciotto, Scientific Director of International Institute for the Sociology of Law Lancaster University School of LawParadoxes of Regulating Corporate Capitalism: Property Rights and Hyper-Regulation 11/16/2010, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

11/16/2010 - Distinguished Speaker

Sol Picciotto, Scientific Director of International Institute for the Sociology of Law Lancaster University School of LawPresentation on the Onati International Institute for Sociology of Law 11/16/2010, 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

Scott Pasternack, Supervisor for Policy Development Toronto Environment OfficeEnvironmental Stewardship Working Group - Who is Building the Better Green Energy Mousetrap? A Comparison of Canadian and US Approaches to Renewables, Energy Efficiency, and Smart Distribution 10/29/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

Judith Herman, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Training Harvard Medical School, Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge HospitalChildren, Families, and the Law Working Group & Gender and the Law Working Group - Celebrating a Life's Work on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence Against Women 03/31/2010, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

Julian Meyrick La Trobe UniversityCultural Policy & Diplomacy Working Group - What is the Function of a Rubber Duck? Australia and the Quest for a National Cultural Policy 10/19/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

10/16/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker

Don Mitchell Syracuse UniversityLaw, Place, and Space Working Group - The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculation, Surveillance, Legal Innovation and the Criminalization of Innovation 10/16/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

10/15/2009 - Cosponsored Speaker

Don Mitchell Syracuse UniversityLaw, Place, and Space Working Group - Homelessness, Geography, and the Right to the City 10/15/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Department of History St. Cloud State UniversityAsian Law Working Group - 'The Japanese Deviation' in Colonial Korea: Revisiting Customary Law in a Comparative Context 09/30/2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. • 509 O'Brian Hall

Photo Gallery of Selected Events

Just over thirty years ago, David Engel published “The Oven Bird’s Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community” in Law and Society Review. Engel’s research revealed the attitudes that residents in a rural Illinois community brought to contested cultural issues regarding personal injury, dispute resolution, social change, and law. The article quickly became one of the signature contributions to the law and society movement, a kind of instant classic.

In examining New York’s drug policies, the conference will engage with an upcoming report by DPA and The New York Academy of Medicine: Blueprint for a Public Health Safety Approach to Drug Policy. Drawing from disciplines such as public health, drug treatment, harm reduction, medicine, public safety, law, sociology and criminal justice, the conference will convene key political leaders, government officials, community organizations, leading academics, service providers, advocates and people directly impacted by the range of drug policies in New York State.

Michael A. Corriero is the Executive Director and Founder of the New York Center for Juvenile Justice. He served as the Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City from July 2008 to July 2010. The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters is to provide mentors to all children who need caring adult role models.